Pie-cake carrier



Aug. 31, 1948,

w INVENTOR. 1; d/rca /7. Mara/W/Y/e Patented Aug. 31, 1948 UNITED STATESPATENT OFFHZE PIE-CAKE CARRIER Edna H. Maranville, Wichita, Kans.

Application August 20, 1946, Serial No. 691,778

l 7 Claims.

This invention relates to a food carrier and has relation moreparticularly to a device of this kind especially designed and adaptedfor use in connection with pie or cake.

Primarily, it is an object of the invention to provide a device of thiskind which, in additon to serving as a carrier, provides a medium tofacilitate cooling of cakes and pies or to store the same when desired.

Another object of the invention is to provide a device of this kindwhich, in addition to providing a convenient medium for transportingpies or cakes, also serves to provide means for storing plates and thelike.

Another object of the invention is to provide a device of this kindcomprising a plurality of superimposed and properly spaced tray membersand wherein the assembly of such members is to permit the ready removalof one of the trays for separate use as, for example, a doughnut drain.

The invention consists in the details of construction and in thecombination and arrangement of the several parts of my improved foodcarrier whereby certain important advantages are attained, as will behereinafter more fully set forth.

In order that my invention may be better understood, I will now proceedto describe the same with reference to the accompanying drawing, whereinis illustrated a view in perspective of a carrier constructed inaccordance with an embodiment of the invention.

In the embodiment of the invention as illustrated in the accompanyingdrawing, 3 denotes a bottom tray member of a skeleton structure andwhich embodies an annular rim member I to which are secured theextremities of'the spaced parallel members 2 in pre-determined,equi-disrelation to the plane of the bottom tray member B. Theintermediate or top cross bar 4 of the member M has hingedly connectedthereto, as at 5, a handle 6, to provide means whereby the carrier as aunit may be readily and conveniently transported.

The rim I of the bottom tray member at a point substantially midwayofthe side arms 3 of the member M has welded or otherwise ri idly securedthereto, the upstanding relatively close and parallel elongated rods 1of a length substantially siliency and which is disposed through thehandle 6 and over the top or intermediate bar 4 of the member M. Thisrod I l is of a length to extend entirely across the top tray member Tand its free extremity is provided with an upwardly facing hook memberl2 which is adapted to straddle from below the upper or intermediate barIt of a holding member H and the adjacent portion of the rim 8 tomaintain said holding member H in raised or effective position.

In the present embodiment of the invention, the holding member H is inthe form of an inverted U- and the outer or free extremities of the sidearms l4 thereof are provided with the eye members I5 which interlockwith the eye members l6 carried by the extended portions of certain ofthe intersecting members 2 of the bottom tray member B. This mounting ofthe holding member M permits the same to be readily swung down into openposition or raised into desired closed position. The side arms 3 of themember M, the side bars 14 of the member 1-1 when in raised or holdingposition and the rods I serve to effectiveate or central tray member C.This central or 7 intermediate tray member C comprises a rim I"! withwhich is rigidly secured the extremity of the equi-distantly spaced andparallel intersecting members l8 and also includes a diametrically disposed bar l9 passing above and below adjacent intersecting members 18and at right angles thereto. The bar I9 may be welded or otherwiserigidly secured to the members l8 and is of a lengthto extend slightlybeyond the rim IT to provide outstanding and radially directed lugs 28to engage from above within the upstanding supporting hook members 2!carried by the side arms 3 of the member M substantially midway thereof.

The rods 1 hereinbefore referred to, at points substantially midwaythereof, are connected by the spaced but closely adjacent cross bars 2|between which is received a portion of the rim [1 5 6 the spacedelements being in approximately the same horizontal plane, and a centerrack adapted REFERENCES CITED m pggi gion b t the top and. bottom racks,The following references are of record. in the the center mck being ofcircular form and havfile of this patent:

ing the periphery thereof engaged between said 5 UNITED STATES PATENTSelements, and means carried at diametrically opposite positions on thecenter rack for de- Number Name e tacheble engagement in said. hooks.953,007 Haller Mar. 22, 1910 7. An article of the character described in1,731,598 Stahl Oct. 15, 1929 claim 6 wherein the last named meanscomprises 10 2,138,560 Stuart Nov. 29, 1938 a, transverse rod, the endsof which project beyond the periphery of the center rack.

EDNA H. MARANVILLE.

